The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge―decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analytica. Jill Lepore, best-selling author of These Truths, came across the company’s papers in MIT’s archives and set out to tell this forgotten history, the long-lost back...(展开全部)

A revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the author of the acclaimed international bestseller These Truths. The Simulmatics Corporation, launched during the Cold War, mined data, targeted voters, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge—decades before Facebook, Google, and Cambridge Analyt...(展开全部)

一本毫不枯燥的科技史启蒙书。 以十足的幽默笔调和精彩绝伦的插画，呈现一百多年来的科技进步。 航空、医学、通讯、天文、交通……一本书囊括现代科学各行业，堪称科技大百科。 创刊于1872年的《大众科学》是美国最早的科普杂志之一，每一期，它的封面都是当时的艺术家对未来充满想象力的呈现，而收录了这145年杂志封面的《未来志》就是一本浓缩的图像科技史。 这些一流的艺术家不仅记录了145年来的科技进步，还为捕捉读者无尽的想象力贡献了自己的画笔与才能。因此，《未来志》是艺术家在科技史上画下的浓墨重彩的一笔。 每一期封面，都对未来做出了精彩的预言。它们或匪夷所思，或天马行空，但它们都实现了吗？在《未来志》中，这一疑问将会随着每一张精心绘制封面的出现而得到解答。 或许许多预言已经实现，但科技的发展离不开我们的敢想敢为。环形汽车、水翼艇……《未来志》中也收录了这些我们盼...(展开全部)

玛丽莲・亚隆，美国斯坦福大学克莱曼性别研究院高级研究员，法国文学教授。著有《妻子的历史》《乳房的历史》《象棋皇后的诞生》《干姐妹：女性记忆中的法国大革命》《美国人的安息之地：公墓和墓地的四百年历史》等多部作品。 王晨，毕业于上海交通大学，译有《黑死病》《骑士之爱与游吟诗人》《论欧洲》《拷问法国大革命》《古典传统：希腊—罗马对西方文学的影响》等。

Who formed the first modern nation? Who created the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned ...(展开全部)

Who formed the first modern nation? Who created the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capitalism? The Scots. Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned ...(展开全部)

What if the real key to a richer and more fulfilling career was not to create and scale a new start-up, but rather, to be able to work for yourself, determine your own hours, and become a (highly profitable) and sustainable company of one? Suppose the better—and smarter—solution is simply to remain small? This book explains how to do just that. Company of One is a refreshingly ...(展开全部)

IF … THEN provides an account of power and politics in the algorithmic media landscape that pays attention to the multiple realities of algorithms, and how these relate and coexist. The argument is made that algorithms do not merely have power and politics; they help to produce certain forms of acting and knowing in the world. In processing, classifying, sorting, and ranking da...(展开全部)